Dancing at Dusk - A Moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring

In March 2020, the world experienced a global response to the spread of the coronavirus. Events were canceled. Public life restricted. The rehearsals for The Rite of Spring came to a pause and rehearsal directors and dancers had to return to their homes. Before that, they rehearsed for the last time on the beach of Toubab Dialaw (Senegal). A documentary film team around filmmaker Florian Heinzen-Ziob was on site. The team spontaneously filmed the last rehearsal and captured a unique moment of self-empowerment and togetherness.

With

Rodolphe Allui, Sahadatou Ami Touré, Anique Ayiboe, D'Aquin Evrard Élisée Bekoin, Gloria Ugwarelojo Biachi, Luciene Cabral, Khadija Cisse, Sonia Zandile Constable, Rokhaya Coulibaly, Astou Diop, Serge Arthur Dodo, Estelle Foli, Aoufice Junior Gouri, Zadi Landry Kipre, Bazoumana Kouyaté, Babacar Mané, Vasco Pedro Mirine, Stéphanie Mwamba, Florent Nikiéma, Shelly Ohene-Nyako, Brian Otieno Oloo, Harivola Rakotondrasoa, Olivia Randrianasolo (Nanie), Asanda Ruda III, Tom Jules Samie, Amy Collé Seck, Pacôme Landry Seka, Gueassa Eva Sibi, Carmelita Siwa, Armel Gnago Sosso-Ny, Amadou Lamine Sow, Aziz Zoundi

Further company dancers: Korotimi Barro, Inas Dasylva, Franne Christie Dossou, Profit Lucky, Vuyo Mahashe, Didja Kady Tiemanta

Film production

Director and Editor: Florian Heinzen-Ziob
Cinematographer and Colour Correction: Enno Endlicher
Sound Recording and Sounddesign: Armin Badde
Production: Fontäne Film Produktion

2020 Restaging

Artistic Directors: Josephine Ann Endicott, Jorge Puerta Armenta
Rehearsal Directors: Clémentine Deluy, Çağdaş Ermiş, Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, Barbara Kaufmann, Julie Shanahan, Kenji Takagi

Special thanks to:

Germaine Acogny, Ange Aoussou, Adam Carree, Gacirah Diagne, Salamatou Diene, Ghislaine Granger, Dan Harmer, Gertraud Johne, Laye Kane, Mariola Kopczynski, Simon Lambert, Petra Leidner, Gerald McDermott, Jeffrey Mitchell, Katie Thackeray, Helmut Vogt

The Rite of Spring

Choreography: Pina Bausch
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Set and Costume Design: Rolf Borzik
Collaboration: Hans Pop

World Premiere 3 December 1975, Opera House Wuppertal
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

Dancing at Dusk - A moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring is produced by Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables and Sadler's Wells

The double-bill The Rite of Spring • common ground[s] is a Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sabels and Sadler's Wells production,

co-produced with
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Festspielhaus St. Pölten; Ludwigsburg Festival; Teatros del Canal de la Comunidad de Madrid and Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi and kindly supported by the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

Funded by

Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Internationaler Koproduktionsfonds of the Goethe Instituts

Film production supported by

Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
Kunststiftung NRW

"Le Sacre Du Printemps"
Performed by Pierre Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra
Courtesy of Sony Classical
By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment
Music courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited

© Pina Bausch Foundation 2020